I have Asperger's.
I notice a common theme is how people express that we tend to go a little overboard on the romance from what we've seen in the media. This also has to do with our tendancy to focus intensely on a narrow subject which at times can be a "romantic"(or so-called) relationship.
I experienced that (so-called) in pre-school. I devoted myself to a girl. In retrospect it was close friendship not romance but my concept of "romance"(which I thought of as the word "love" for the most part, I had a large vocabulary as a kid but I don't know if I knew the word romance yet) came from what I saw on television. I suspect this sort of thing may happen to a lot of NTs too, just a normal sort of childhood puppylove.
I even told her "it was over" at the end of our "relationship", I think she took that as the friendship being over. But I did it for a reason I had come to associate with romance. I was transfering to a new school for kindergarten and wouldn't be seeing her again. I didn't want her heart to be broken, so I broke up with her.
Would you date someone with autism?
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I have Asperger's.
I notice a common theme is how people express that we tend to go a little overboard on the romance from what we've seen in the media. This also has to do with our tendancy to focus intensely on a narrow subject which at times can be a "romantic"(or so-called) relationship.
I experienced that (so-called) in pre-school. I devoted myself to a girl. In retrospect it was close friendship not romance but my concept of "romance"(which I thought of as the word "love" for the most part, I had a large vocabulary as a kid but I don't know if I knew the word romance yet) came from what I saw on television. I suspect this sort of thing may happen to a lot of NTs too, just a normal sort of childhood puppylove.
I even told her "it was over" at the end of our "relationship", I think she took that as the friendship being over. But I did it for a reason I had come to associate with romance. I was transfering to a new school for kindergarten and wouldn't be seeing her again. I didn't want her heart to be broken, so I broke up with her.